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Hiring overseas talent for early-stage startups

The founder is the bottleneck on everything, and the first hire has to absorb the widest possible surface.

Salary figures checked July 2026.

What they'd actually take on

Founder inbox and calendar, investor and customer research, process documentation from scratch, outbound prospecting, vendor and tooling admin.

The tools they need to know

Notion, Slack, Google Workspace, HubSpot, Linear

The roles worth hiring, and what they cost

$800–$1,400/mo

Executive assistant

Calendar and inbox ownership, travel, research briefs, meeting notes, and chasing the follow-ups nobody else remembers.

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$1,000–$1,800/mo

Operations manager

Process documentation, vendor and supplier coordination, order and fulfilment oversight, reporting, and increasingly running the AI tools the business depends on.

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$900–$1,800/mo

Sales development rep

Outbound prospecting, list building, sequence writing, qualifying inbound, and booking meetings for a closer.

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How the search works

You describe the role once — no sales call, ever. We run the entire search free, then show you three finalists in full: scores, screening notes, structured answers and graded work samples. The flat fee falls due only when you decide you want to meet them, and if nobody's right we rerun it free.

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Common questions

Which overseas roles work best for early-stage startups?

The four that consistently earn their cost: executive assistant, operations manager, sales development rep. The founder is the bottleneck on everything, and the first hire has to absorb the widest possible surface.

What does it cost?

Monthly salaries run roughly $800–$1,800 depending on the role and country, paid directly by you with no markup from us. Placement is a flat fee from $1,995 per search rather than the 25–35% of first-year salary that's standard in this market.

Do you know this industry, or is this generic?

We publish the specific tools, tasks and failure modes for each industry rather than a find-and-replace of a generic page — for early-stage startups that means Notion, Slack, Google Workspace, HubSpot, Linear. If something here doesn't match how your business actually runs, tell us and we'll say so plainly rather than sell you a role that won't fit.

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